Göktuğ Morçöl
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Göktuğ Morçöl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Göktuğ |
| FAMILY NAME | Morçöl |
| SIGNATURE | MORCÖL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1760-4348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Commentary on Juval Portugali's ‘Bohm's theory of orders as a basis for a unified urban theory’
Portugali's proposal to unify urban theory based on Bohm's theory of quantum phenomena is discussed. The propositions of complexity theory and phenomenology are compared, and it is argued that their ontologies and epistemologies cannot be easily reconciled. It is argued that Bohm's theory is compatible with complexity theory but does not help bridge the differences between complexity theory and phenomenology. A grand unification of urban theory, …
A social network analysis of academic journals in public administration in the early twenty-first century
Complex Governance Networks
Complex Governance Networks
What are the roles of governments and other actors in solving, or alleviating, collective action problems in today’s world? The traditional conceptual frameworks of public administration and public policy studies have become less relevant in answering this question. This book critically assesses traditional conceptual frameworks and proposes an alternative: a complex governance networks (CGN) framework. Advocating that complexity theory should be…
Business Improvement District Enabling Laws in the United States and Germany
This study aims to answer the question of how political cultures of respective countries affect policy learning processes. Using historical and contextual information about the political cultures of the United States and Germany and with applications of the advocacy coalition framework and cultural theory, this study finds that the originally American business improvement district (BID) institutional form was adopted in Germany when its political…
Using ego-network analyses to examine journal citations
Governance Networks, Bureaucracy, and Democracy
Are bureaucratic and network forms of organization compatible with democracy? Two observations made in the literature inspire this question: Liberal democracies around the world have been challenged by populist authoritarian movements and leaders, and multicentric forms of governance (i.e., governance networks) are utilized increasingly in public policymaking and service delivery in many of these democracies. Based on these observations, we propo…
Accountability of Business Improvement District in Urban Governance Networks
A conceptual framework is proposed to investigate the accountability of business improvement district (BID) in urban governance networks and it is applied in analyses of BID state enabling laws in the United States. The conditions that lead to their emergence and the enhancement of their functions and how BIDs and their accountability issues should be conceptualized are discussed. The multidimensional framework proposed in this study includes pol…
Sharing economy
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
The effects of business improvement districts in reducing nuisance crimes
Previous studies showed that business improvement districts (BIDs) could contribute to an increase in property values and reduction in minor crimes in their areas. Estimating the effects of BIDs on the variables of property values and crime is methodologically challenging, however, because BIDs are not established randomly but selectively, according to the needs of commercial areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of BIDs…
Business Improvement Districts in Urban Governance
Using a longitudinal case study, we analyzed the centralities and roles of the actors in an urban governance network. The results of our network text analyses and social network analyses of newspaper articles show that the director of the business improvement district, the city council, and mayors were the most central actors in the governance network. Our thematic content analyses of the policy-related actions of these actors show that while the…
Complexity Theory for Public Policy
Understanding Business Improvement Districts
What is the current state of research on business improvement districts (BIDs)? What is an appropriate framework for analysis? What are key questions for advancing future BID research? BIDs can be understood best within a network governance framework. The research shows, first, a blurring of the line between the public and private spheres as a result of BIDs; second, BIDs are increasingly important actors in urban governance; third, BIDs engage i…
Network and Complexity Theories
It is argued that a synthesis of network and complexity theories will help enhance the theoretical and methodological capabilities of understanding governance, policy, and public management networks. The similarities and differences of the two theories on stability and dynamism of social systems, self-organization, and uncertainty are identified. Potential contributions of the complexity concepts of nonlinearity and dissipative structures and age…
Business Improvement Districts
Focuses on the role of the business improvement district (BID) as a popular and contemporary tool for urban revitalization. Explores BID origins, theoretical underpinnings, enabling legislation, and organizational issues. Emphasizes BID service provision including advocacy, marketing, sanitation, streetscape improvement, security and transportation, while examining BID performance using such indicators as crime rates, vacancy rates, and retail sa…
Business Improvement Districts
Phenomenology of Complexity Theory and Cognitive Science
This paper discusses the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty and shows the parallels between these philosophies on the one hand and the implications of complexity theory and cognitive science on the other. Phenomenology, complexity theory, and cognitive science converge on the understanding that the Cartesian objectivist view of the world is erroneous and they offer a contextual and embodied view of the scientif…
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
Molotch, Stone, and others demonstrated that business leaders exercise major influence in American urban politics. Business leaders with local economic interests have long promoted growth in American cities. This article discusses the historical influence of Atlanta's business leaders in the city's economic growth and focuses on their role in the policy shifts in the 1990s, from unfettered growth to “smart growth.” In response to Atlanta's worsen…
Remembering John H. Little
Positivist beliefs among policy professionals
Fuzz and Chaos
A Typology of the Urban Poor in Turkey
This paper discusses the results of a survey conducted in 1992 in Ankara, Turkey, to develop a typology of the urban poor. It draws on poverty culture conceptualization and an empirical study done in the US. The present study was designed to identify the cultural and psychological differences among the poor. It was found that there were three types among the urban poor: doers, accommodators, and losers. The emergence of these types is explained i…
Socio-economic status and life satisfaction in Turkey
Positivist beliefs among policy professionals
Socio-economic status and life satisfaction in Turkey
Network and Complexity Theories
It is argued that a synthesis of network and complexity theories will help enhance the theoretical and methodological capabilities of understanding governance, policy, and public management networks. The similarities and differences of the two theories on stability and dynamism of social systems, self-organization, and uncertainty are identified. Potential contributions of the complexity concepts of nonlinearity and dissipative structures and age…
Accountability of Business Improvement District in Urban Governance Networks
A conceptual framework is proposed to investigate the accountability of business improvement district (BID) in urban governance networks and it is applied in analyses of BID state enabling laws in the United States. The conditions that lead to their emergence and the enhancement of their functions and how BIDs and their accountability issues should be conceptualized are discussed. The multidimensional framework proposed in this study includes pol…
The effects of business improvement districts in reducing nuisance crimes
Previous studies showed that business improvement districts (BIDs) could contribute to an increase in property values and reduction in minor crimes in their areas. Estimating the effects of BIDs on the variables of property values and crime is methodologically challenging, however, because BIDs are not established randomly but selectively, according to the needs of commercial areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of BIDs…
Business Improvement District Enabling Laws in the United States and Germany
This study aims to answer the question of how political cultures of respective countries affect policy learning processes. Using historical and contextual information about the political cultures of the United States and Germany and with applications of the advocacy coalition framework and cultural theory, this study finds that the originally American business improvement district (BID) institutional form was adopted in Germany when its political…
Business Improvement Districts in Urban Governance
Using a longitudinal case study, we analyzed the centralities and roles of the actors in an urban governance network. The results of our network text analyses and social network analyses of newspaper articles show that the director of the business improvement district, the city council, and mayors were the most central actors in the governance network. Our thematic content analyses of the policy-related actions of these actors show that while the…
Phenomenology of Complexity Theory and Cognitive Science
This paper discusses the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty and shows the parallels between these philosophies on the one hand and the implications of complexity theory and cognitive science on the other. Phenomenology, complexity theory, and cognitive science converge on the understanding that the Cartesian objectivist view of the world is erroneous and they offer a contextual and embodied view of the scientif…
Sharing economy
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
Socio-economic status and life satisfaction in Turkey
A Typology of the Urban Poor in Turkey
This paper discusses the results of a survey conducted in 1992 in Ankara, Turkey, to develop a typology of the urban poor. It draws on poverty culture conceptualization and an empirical study done in the US. The present study was designed to identify the cultural and psychological differences among the poor. It was found that there were three types among the urban poor: doers, accommodators, and losers. The emergence of these types is explained i…
Fuzz and Chaos
Remembering John H. Little
Positivist beliefs among policy professionals
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
Molotch, Stone, and others demonstrated that business leaders exercise major influence in American urban politics. Business leaders with local economic interests have long promoted growth in American cities. This article discusses the historical influence of Atlanta's business leaders in the city's economic growth and focuses on their role in the policy shifts in the 1990s, from unfettered growth to “smart growth.” In response to Atlanta's worsen…
Phenomenology of Complexity Theory and Cognitive Science
This paper discusses the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty and shows the parallels between these philosophies on the one hand and the implications of complexity theory and cognitive science on the other. Phenomenology, complexity theory, and cognitive science converge on the understanding that the Cartesian objectivist view of the world is erroneous and they offer a contextual and embodied view of the scientif…
Business Improvement Districts
Focuses on the role of the business improvement district (BID) as a popular and contemporary tool for urban revitalization. Explores BID origins, theoretical underpinnings, enabling legislation, and organizational issues. Emphasizes BID service provision including advocacy, marketing, sanitation, streetscape improvement, security and transportation, while examining BID performance using such indicators as crime rates, vacancy rates, and retail sa…
Business Improvement Districts
Network and Complexity Theories
It is argued that a synthesis of network and complexity theories will help enhance the theoretical and methodological capabilities of understanding governance, policy, and public management networks. The similarities and differences of the two theories on stability and dynamism of social systems, self-organization, and uncertainty are identified. Potential contributions of the complexity concepts of nonlinearity and dissipative structures and age…
Understanding Business Improvement Districts
What is the current state of research on business improvement districts (BIDs)? What is an appropriate framework for analysis? What are key questions for advancing future BID research? BIDs can be understood best within a network governance framework. The research shows, first, a blurring of the line between the public and private spheres as a result of BIDs; second, BIDs are increasingly important actors in urban governance; third, BIDs engage i…
Complexity Theory for Public Policy
Business Improvement Districts in Urban Governance
Using a longitudinal case study, we analyzed the centralities and roles of the actors in an urban governance network. The results of our network text analyses and social network analyses of newspaper articles show that the director of the business improvement district, the city council, and mayors were the most central actors in the governance network. Our thematic content analyses of the policy-related actions of these actors show that while the…
The effects of business improvement districts in reducing nuisance crimes
Previous studies showed that business improvement districts (BIDs) could contribute to an increase in property values and reduction in minor crimes in their areas. Estimating the effects of BIDs on the variables of property values and crime is methodologically challenging, however, because BIDs are not established randomly but selectively, according to the needs of commercial areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of BIDs…
Accountability of Business Improvement District in Urban Governance Networks
A conceptual framework is proposed to investigate the accountability of business improvement district (BID) in urban governance networks and it is applied in analyses of BID state enabling laws in the United States. The conditions that lead to their emergence and the enhancement of their functions and how BIDs and their accountability issues should be conceptualized are discussed. The multidimensional framework proposed in this study includes pol…
Sharing economy
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
Using ego-network analyses to examine journal citations
Governance Networks, Bureaucracy, and Democracy
Are bureaucratic and network forms of organization compatible with democracy? Two observations made in the literature inspire this question: Liberal democracies around the world have been challenged by populist authoritarian movements and leaders, and multicentric forms of governance (i.e., governance networks) are utilized increasingly in public policymaking and service delivery in many of these democracies. Based on these observations, we propo…
Complex Governance Networks
What are the roles of governments and other actors in solving, or alleviating, collective action problems in today’s world? The traditional conceptual frameworks of public administration and public policy studies have become less relevant in answering this question. This book critically assesses traditional conceptual frameworks and proposes an alternative: a complex governance networks (CGN) framework. Advocating that complexity theory should be…
Business Improvement District Enabling Laws in the United States and Germany
This study aims to answer the question of how political cultures of respective countries affect policy learning processes. Using historical and contextual information about the political cultures of the United States and Germany and with applications of the advocacy coalition framework and cultural theory, this study finds that the originally American business improvement district (BID) institutional form was adopted in Germany when its political…
A social network analysis of academic journals in public administration in the early twenty-first century
Complex Governance Networks
Commentary on Juval Portugali's ‘Bohm's theory of orders as a basis for a unified urban theory’
Portugali's proposal to unify urban theory based on Bohm's theory of quantum phenomena is discussed. The propositions of complexity theory and phenomenology are compared, and it is argued that their ontologies and epistemologies cannot be easily reconciled. It is argued that Bohm's theory is compatible with complexity theory but does not help bridge the differences between complexity theory and phenomenology. A grand unification of urban theory, …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (9 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)